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Sharon is the Executive Director at LEAD. She has over 18 years of experience in research and international development, with over seven of those spent in the field of digital financial services and financial inclusion. She is passionate about finding effective solutions to promote enterprise growth and development, and realising the untapped potential of micro and small businesses. She has significant expertise in leveraging co-creation, collaborative processes, as well using the power of data from the ground up to improve socio-economic outcomes for individuals, households and enterprises. She focuses on bringing the right combination of talent, expertise and stakeholders together to ensure that investments and efforts are perfectly aligned with the desired goals.
Sharon has in-depth knowledge in “right fit research methods” and significant experience in the domain of financial capabilities and well-being, and small business and entrepreneurship development. Sharon’s journey at LEAD began in 2008, when she arrived in India with a strong desire to improve society by producing impactful knowledge that can bring positive change. Prior to joining LEAD, Sharon was an economist with Analysis Group in Montreal Canada. She holds a Master’s degree in Economics from the Université du Québec à Montréal as well as an M.A. in Social Research Methods from the London School of Economics.
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Involved in cyber issues for 30 years, first as a federal prosecutor handling major cybercrime cases, then as a senior official in the US Department of Justice and the White House. I created the office was the first dedicated cyber diplomat in the US State department championing cyber diplomacy, norms and stability, Internet freedom, Internet Governance, combatting cyber crime, capacity building and other maters. Among other things, I currently serve as the President of the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise Foundation.
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Dr. Rob McMahon is an Associate Professor in the Media & Technology Studies Unit and the Department of Political Science in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta. His research focuses on the development, adoption, and use of broadband and internet technologies by rural, Northern, and Indigenous communities. His approach involves working with communities to ensure that their voices are heard in all stages of research. He and his partners are exploring ways to house project data and build research capacities in communities, and are involved in efforts to contribute to digital policy and regulation.
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Pradyumna Bhattacharjee is an Education Specialist in the World Bank's Education Global Practice in the South Asia Region. He works on lending operations, advisory services, and analytical activities in school education, skills development, and higher education. His experience spans strategy, operations, research, impact measurement, program management, and technology, and he is deeply committed to applying the principles of human-centered design and systems thinking to his work. Prior to his current role, Pradyumna used to lead strategy, research, and M&E at an education non-profit. He started his career as a primary school teacher in one of Delhi’s most disadvantaged communities. He holds BS and MS degrees in Physics from the University of Delhi.
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Jiyoung Cho is a Ph.D. candidate in Politics at The New School for Social Research. Her work examines the dynamic interplay among politics of knowledge, technologies, infrastructural development, security, capital accumulation, and the constitution of political and social subjectivities.
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Researching young activist's experience of promoting inclusivity in online domains. I look at the politics of inclusivity in terms of how it is performed and enacted by young adults online. I particularly focus on young people's politics on online media and am interested in understanding inclusive online spaces. Research themes include Young People, Brexit, Austerity, Online, Activism, Digital Publics, Lived Experience, Covid-19, Digital Access/Poverty.
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John H McKendrick is Professor of Social Justice and co-Director of the Scottish Poverty and Inequality Research Unit in the Glasgow School for Business and Society at Glasgow Caledonian University. He is primarily concerned to inform the work of practitioners and campaigners beyond the academy who seek to tackle poverty in Scotland. he has active research interests in relation to children and play, education, tackling poverty, transport and school food.
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Mark Visser is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Radboud University (Nijmegen, the Netherlands). His research interests include older workers, the life course perspective, quantitative methodology, political sociology, social capital, social inequality and social stratification.
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Yann Briand is a senior climate policy researcher at the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI), affiliated to Sciences Po and is working on decarbonization trajectories in the transport sector as part of the Deep Decarbonization Pathways – DDP initiative. He holds a double master degree in mechanical and power engineering from Arts et Métiers ParisTech in France and the Technical University of Dresden and a master degree in public affairs with majors in energy, resources and sustainable development from Sciences Po Paris in France.
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I am a PhD student at University of York exploring food system change and food values. My greatest passion is connecting people to each other and to our planet. With an academic background in food policy and professional experience campaigns and communications, I accomplish this by exploring the intricacies of our food system and sharing them through my work. My interests include transformation and resilience, right to food, environmental education and outreach, regenerative agriculture, brand and website design for ethical businesses and systems thinking.